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February 2026

February 20, 2026

While Marked with the Sign of the Cross

I don't have anything easy to tell you. I have been healing in public, or...

February 10, 2024

Facing Lent, Exhausted

I've been exhausted lately. My seasonal depression and anxiety are the lowest they've ever been...

April 2022

April 14, 2022

The Things I Want to Believe

I went for another hike. At the beginning of Lent, I'd set as a...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

Religious Trauma and Lent: What are We To Do?

I just want to remind everyone that if you suffer from religious trauma, or...

March 02, 2022

In This Fateful Hour

It's supposed to be Fat Tuesday, a day to have a little fun. There's...

February 2021

February 24, 2021

The Grace of God in Scrambled Eggs

It hasn't been the best of weeks. It started with the failed pixie cut....

February 17, 2021

Lent, Penance and Spiritual Abuse: What Are We To Do?

It's Lent. If you're Christian, that's a time for reflection and turning away from...

March 2020

March 01, 2020

No, Lent is Not About Hurting Yourself

It happened again this Lent as always: the anxious Ash Wednesday discussion about fasting and...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Lent Begins in Winter

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There...

February 21, 2020

A Suggestion For Your Lent This Year

Have you made your plans for Lent yet? What are you going to do?...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

My Intention for a Dark Lent

I don't know about you, but I'm not really feeling in the mood for Lent...

March 24, 2018

Failing and Winning at Lent

This hasn't been much of a Lent. It never is, but this one was...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Thoughts on Today’s Valentine’s-Ash Wednesday Mashup

It may have come to your attention that today is Ash Wednesday, and also Valentine's...

February 11, 2018

Here Comes Lent 2018

My favorite time of year is almost here. Yes, I'm that weirdo who actually...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

Expecto Bock-Peck?

It was going to be my first Pascha in the Byzantine Catholic church. I wanted...

April 14, 2017

A Steel Magnificat Way of the Cross

We have reached Good Friday and the end of our Lenten meditations. If anyone...

April 13, 2017

The Thirteenth Station: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your holy cross You...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Where’s the Borscht?

I grew up associating Lent with fish sticks and bland, canned-soup casserole on Fridays. My...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Lent Reveals The Desert

It begins tomorrow night-- Wednesday for you in the West. Lent is beginning. Christ is...

February 20, 2017

What Are You Doing for Lent?

The Great Fast is almost here. For the Latin church, Lent will begin on March...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

Myrrh Doesn’t Flow From Healthy Bodies

(Image: a fresco of Saint Demetrius, via Wikimedia Commons.) I took a free Orthodox calendar...